There has been a lot of talk about the three-year-old lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg brought by three of his former Harvard classmates. The trio claims Zuckerberg stole the idea, source code and business plan for their social networking site, called HarvardConnection, after he worked with them on the project in November 2003. We’re not going to handicap this dogfight just yet — but this tangle over who owns what raises an important question for founders and gives renewed relevance to the old debate over what matters more, invention or innovation? Continue Reading.
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